Monterrey Open: Ruse reaches second round

Romanian qualifier Elena-Gabriela Ruse won against Italian Camila Giorgi 6-4, 7-5 to move into the second round of the Monterrey Open at the Estadio GNP Seguros on Tuesday night.

Ruse, ranked No 160, will play Belgian Elise Mertens, the No 4 seed, next.

Monterrey WTA 250, other first-round results (Estadio GNP Seguros, hard, USD 259.303, most recent results first):

• Caroline Garcia vs. Kaja Juvan: wednesday
• Emma Navarro (WC) beat Leolia Jeanjean: 6-4, 6-2
• Xinyu Wang beat Sachia Vickery (Q): 6-3, 6-4
• Donna Vekic (3) beat Lesia Tsurenko (Q): 2-6, 5-0 ret.
• Kamilla Rakhimova (Q) beat Katerina Siniakova (6): 7-6 (6), 2-6, 7-6 (5)
• Nuria Parrizas Diaz beat Xiyu Wang: 7-6 (5), 2-6, 6-4
• Mayar Sherif (7) beat Camila Osorio: 7-6 (5), 4-2 ret.
• Elisabetta Cocciaretto (8) beat Marina Bassols Ribera (LL): 7-5, 6-2
• Tatjana Maria beat Lucia Bronzetti: 6-1, 6-0
• Elise Mertens beat Diana Shnaider: 6-0, 6-4
• Rebecca Marino beat Fernanda Contreras Gomez (WC): 7-6 (4), 7-6 (4)
• Anna Karolina Schmiedlova beat Marie Bouzkova (2): 6-4, 6-2
• Ysaline Bonaventure beat Despina Papamichail (Q): 7-6 (5), 4-6, 6-1
• Lin Zhu (5) beat Anna Bondar: 6-4, 7-6 (4)
• Caroline Dolehide (Q) beat Jule Niemeier: 6-1, 6-0